The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-11-24
LLEWXAM'S LETTER.
IA Farraginous Feast Of Facts Fresh
From the National Capital.

Special Correspondence Of The Sentinel. ~
WASHINGTON, D. G. Nov. 21.-
There now appears to be no doubt
that upon the elevation of Secretary
Lamar to the supreme court bench,
Hon. Don M. Dickson, of Michigan,
will enter the cabinet of President
Cleveland. Postmaster General Villas
is to succeed Mr.. Lamar, as Secretary
of the Interior and Mr.. Dickinson is
to step into Mr.. Villas old official
shoes, and become the head Of the post
Office department.. These changes
which will be made next month, will
leave the South with but one repre-.
sentative in the cabinet.
Don M. Dickinson is in his 41st
year and comes of American stock on
bot h sides, through generations
running back to the seven
teenth century. Admitted to the bar
when barely 81, he rose rapidly in his
profession, and from the age of % he
has been a leading lawyer in his state,
and from the age Of 80, one of the first
counsel in the northwest. His name
has been associated as counsel in near
ly every famous litigation in Michigan
and in the Supreme Court of the
United States, his record of successes
has been brilliant. Mr.. Dickinson's
contest in behalf of the state courts
against the alleged invasion of their
Jurisdiction by the federal judiciary
under the bankruptcy law was quasi
political in its character, and in the
| e tn fol
in the LeRoux case, after seven years
of defeats in the lower courts, his posi-
ton was sustained. His latest widely
| known appearance in that court was III
the great telephone contest, where he
made the leading argument for Draw
baugh against Bell, and was associat-
| ed with Senator Edmunds and Ly-
sander Hill. His professional income
runs from $4,000 to $4,000 per an
mum. In politics Mr.. Dickinson is a
Jeffersonian Democrat, believing in
domestic self-government, strict con-
struction of the constitution, and op-
posing class legislation, in which he
embraces all protective laws.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE.
Well this appointment has been
made at last, and Gen. w. r. Cox, is
not the man, as many of US hoped and
believed it would be. His name is
Rives and he halls from New York
of course. By the way, these New
York appointments under this admin
istration are getting to be almost as
great nuisance as was the "Ohio
Idea" under Hayes and Garfield.
Mr.. Rives is of Virginia family.
His grandfather was senator from
Virginia and twice American minister
to Paris. He was born in New York
in 1849, graduated at Columbia col
lege in 1868. He then entered Trin-
ity College, University OF Cambridge,
England, was graduated in 1872. On
returning home from England he en-
tered Columbia College law school
and graduated in 1888, and immed-
lately began his profession in New
York. He is an earnest and active
Democrat and was Jealous in the
Cleveland campaign of 1884.
FACTS AND FIGURES:
The annual report of United States
Treasurer Hyatt has been submitted
to Secretary Fairchild. It occupies
ninety-three printed pages. The re-
ceipts for the year were $371 ,4O3, PIT
IS. The expenditures were $267. $780,
1897. The receipts were S34 $685.
5000 greater and the expenditures
| $25, AS, 041.47 greater than the year
before. The excess of revenues over
expenditures amounted to sos, All, ;
0g7. SO. OF bonds there were 1927